Media

The things that are not work, which turn out to feed the work anyway.

Movement & Dance

West Coast Swing

Ashraff mid-routine on a social dance floor with a partner, surrounded by a seated crowd

West Coast Swing isn't just a dance — it's a conversation. I train twice a week in three-hour sessions, studying the biomechanics of connection, frame, and partner communication with the same rigour I bring to engineering problems. Movement is where thinking becomes feeling.

Making & Fabrication

3D Printing

A 3D printed gold headphone trophy on a black plinth engraved WCS Malaysia DJ Battle Champion
A 3D printed turntable award with a DJ ON AIR sign and a printed record labelled DJ Kia

From robot prototypes to objects I decide I need at 11pm — 3D printing is my favourite intersection of digital and physical. If I can model it, I can make it. These two were trophies for a WCS Malaysia DJ battle: a printed headphone award and a working turntable likeness for the winner.

Volunteering & Community

Toastmasters — Secretary (2019)

Served as Secretary for the Monash University Toastmasters chapter — and discovered I genuinely enjoy helping people find their voice, literally.

Engineers Student Association — Designer (2018)

Combined my design background with student community work, creating visual materials and contributing to association events.

Other Interests

Graphic Design

Digital illustration of a figure in profile with flowing red hair and a block-colour face
Poster artwork of chess pieces on a warped checkerboard radiating from a bright vanishing point
Tools of the Trade campaign graphic for MUSA, built around a vintage folding camera
MUSA Spirit Week poster with a poured-paint gradient behind heavy display type

Years of self-taught design work that now underpins how I think about every user-facing system I build. The gap between something that works and something that feels right is always a design problem.